A thread in a high traffic forum with a title people will actually click on. I bet most people reflexively close those announcements because most of them are about server downtimes or contests or whatever. An existential discussion on the forum shouldn't get the same treatment as an Amiibo giveaway.
I think most people are taking a wait-and-see stance regarding how things will change with the new MOBA ownership.
This stuff doesn't cost a penny. Likes can be implemented within seconds, signatures as well, they are base line of this kind of board software, they weren't implemented for a reason I guess. Same with animated avatars, though most boards don't allow them.
I don't have screenshots and my memory isn't that good in my advanced age, plus it all happened very fast and in a bunch of places, but I'm willing to bet all my money that if at the time it was clearly communicated that this forum would run as for profit venture which is aimed to maximize profits that go mostly to one person it would have not succeeded in (mostly) inheriting GAF's user base.
There's a regular flow of banner messages on this site often "notifying" posters to things as benign as site maintenance. I don't know how the banner looks on desktop, but I completely passed it as something small and not worth my attention as a mobile poster. Something that reads "here's some information about an update in site ownership" sounds similar to a ToS update. Like "hey there was a small change that won't impact anything".
Some of y'all legit talk back just to talk back.
Well, as someone who was involved in 2 discords following the migration, one of them being one of the bigger ones, I can tell you don't recall anything like this. And rumors like this can, in fact, spin out of the ether, or atleast as close to the ether as it gets. Someone says they wonder how think Restera will be owned, another person suggests that Cerium could sell it to them afterwards as a hypothetical idea they get, a week later someone else asked and they go "I think someone told me Cerium said that he's gonna sell it to admins afterwards" and through the game of telephone that's the statement htat gets popular when no admin said anything of the sort.
So either Poodlestrike is a liar, or you are somehow in a better position to know this sort of thing and obviously have the metrics and examples to back up your claim which you will provide shortly.
Here is how you sneak it through----you don't make an announcement. At all. I'm not saying there isn't some validity to wanting this in Off Topic, even if I disagree, but I'm getting frustrated at folks looking for the worst possible interpretations in regards to the sell and announcement, and then letting that worst possible view spread to the point where they're essentially shit talking admins and mods in here.
Seriously with this? It's literally because of what I said already: Most people don't want to post differing opinions in most threads because of the inconsistent enforcement of rules and the heavy-handed moderation. It's not a difficult concept. You are being completely disingenuous if you're going to sit there and honestly say that people are banned for differing viewpoints only in those types of topics you listed. That's a flat out lie.
If you're asking me about whether Resetera could or should be community owned, then sure, I am am more than open to that and assuming some business law lawyers came in to make sure everything was legally stable, I would have supported that kind of path for Resetera moving forward. There would be downsides and concerns, mostly technical as the benefits of corperate ownership is what Cerium listed before and couldn't seem to provide on his own. But yeah, I'm for it. No objections on the idea from me.
I've seen enough bad bans to know I disagree with that and let's leave it at that.
You are the one painting the board as some echo chamber where just disagreeing on a topic will get you banned.
I actually do see and read those banners. They work.
Yuuuup.
How come the new owners have stated something different in the official press release?
it doesn't help that the Announcements forum may as well be invisible. As far as I can tell, it and the vault subforum only show up on the home page? They're not in the sidebar or dropdown navigation so it's incredibly easy to spend a million hours on this site and never look at the front page, since you can just bookmark the gaming/etc forum and use the top/sidebar navigation to jump to the other subforums (minus those two).
Let's ignore the facts that:
There's full site wraps when you haven't logged in here lol.Yuuuup.
Notice how much more active this thread got after that other thread was up for only 10 minutes or so.
Once the MOBA Network branding, ad takeovers, and cross-linking kicks in, it'll be a liiiiiittle bit harder to ignore.
www.resetera.com
Add tears to the cat and it's accurate.Nepenthe trying to answer questions like..
I feel it's more like thisNepenthe trying to answer questions like..
If you're not reading the responses, sure.I feel it's more like this
That cat is having too much fun---those fingers need to be poking the cat in the face.Nepenthe trying to answer questions like..
I mean I read the press release and it didn't say anything like I wouldn't be able to ban bigots.
